Affiliations: Motormouth (partner);
Captain America, CARE, Dr. Strange, Genetix, Hulk, Sabra of the
Seven Isles, Samira, SHIELD II, Temploids (esp. Gabriel), Zachary Sorrow,
Tuck, Wolverine, an unnamed primitive tribe in the distant past;
semi-friendly rivalry with Death's Head-Minion.
allied with the rest of the Marvel UK heroes on a few occasions;
worshipped by the people of Fautor IV;
formerly Oonagh Mullarkey (mother
figure and commander); Time Guardian (used him as a
pawn) and his agent the Superconductor; Gena-Sys, and Mys-Tech
(supervised by Ormond Wychwood)

Base of Operations: mobile throughout
Earth and other planets and dimensions;
Kamuni Atoll, an island in the South Pacific;
formerly Gena-Sys Labs and Mys-Tech Central (below the Museum of
Pagan Antiquities), London, England

Julius has been trained in numerous forms of
armed and unarmed combat, and definitely enjoys what he does.
However, he only has the intelligence level and emotional
capacity of a ten year old boy (although he is actually one five
years old). As a result, he often lacks the understanding of the
significance of a situation, and thinks of many things as games.
However, he also possesses an affinity for all things mechanical,
a mecha-psychometry, which allows him to work out a machine's
function without prior knowledge of it, and to build and repair
or modify extremely complex machinery.

Julius wears an anti-gravity pack, which can
also be packed with a number of weapons, dictated by the mission.
Julius has a particular fascination for great big hand-held
ballistic weapons. He also fondly remembers a "Turkey
shoot" game of target practice, and he loves to start
yelling "Turkey shoot" while blowing people away.

Height: 6' 8"Weight: 325 lbs.Eyes: BlueHair: Orange

History:
(Motormouth#4/2) - At Gena-Sys labs, under the supervision of
Ormond Wychwood, Dr. Oonagh Mullarkey began work in
"transgenics." After successful work in animals, she
began work on her first human subject. One of her assistants,
Sullivan, botched up the cell implant instructions, and used a
few different subjects than she had intended. However, the child
was successfully created. Acting as mother to the infant, she
named it Julius Mullarkey--Julius because it was born in vitro,
and thus not delivered via the birth canal--which she reasoned as
a form of Caesarian section (Julius Caesar). Under her
care, Julius grew to become the assassin known as Killpower in
about 18 months.
Julius' killer instinct (or more appropriately, his lack of
appreciation for human life) soon became apparent. When he
showed interest in a big gun obtained by the Warheads, Mys-Tech
agent Mr. Skyler scolded him. Julius picked up the gun and blew
Skyler's head off.

(Killpower: The Early Years#1) - Killpower
continued his training under the supervision of Oonagh and
Wychwood. The Time Guardian observed his knack for machinery, and
lured him into a "game," which was actually a mission
to obtain the missing parts of the Chronifact. The Time Guardian
sent him back to @ 2950 BC, where he encountered Rama-Tut and his
soldiers. Rama-Tut told Killpower that the device was held by his
enemy Samira, and tricked Julius into believing that Samira had
made an attempt on his life. Samira, however, calmed Julius, and
revealed the truth to him--Rama-Tut had the device all along.
Julius then went back to Rama-Tut and tried to take the device by
force, at which point the Genetix--sent into the past by Oonagh
to rescue Julius--arrived.

(Kp:tEY#2) - Julius initially mistook the
Genetix for allies of Rama-Tut and attacked them, but he
eventually tracked down the device anyway. Once he grasped the
half of the Chronifact, the Time Guardian pulled him back to the
distant past. There Julius befriended a primitive tribe.
"Meanwhile," Samira sent the Genetix to the same time
period, to assist Julius. The Genetix found the other half of the
Chronifact, and Julius attempted to connect them (as the Time
Guardian wished) . Before he could do so, Chronifact's creator,
Sidney Fishburne, pulled the one half of the Chronifact (and
Julius with it) to about five years after Julius was sent back
from in the first place (note: this would thus be the more
recent end of the modern era, around the same time as the books
published in 1993).

(Kp:tEY#3) - Killpower ran afoul of the
Punisher, a group of criminals led by Mr.Carbine, and two gangs:
the Huns and the Street Amazons. Killpower tried to partner up
with the Punisher, who ditched him, and instead ended up becoming
the leader (or Warlord) of the Huns. Fishburne, still seeking to
regain the Chronifact, sent six armored battlesuits to the Street
Amazons, to help them overpower the Huns and claim the device for
him. The Time Guardian sent Genetix to that era, too. A massive
battle between all of the above characters ensued, until
Fishburne and the Time Guardian both tried to claim the Time
Guardian at the same time. A massive backlash occurred, and
Fishburne gained the Chronifact, while Killpower, the Genetix,
and the Time Guardian were all sent forward in time to the
distant future, where they encountered a violent race of mutates.

(Kp:tEY#4) - Killpower and the others struggled
to survive in the hostile environment while Fishburne and the
Time Guardian vied for control of the Chronifact. Meanwhile,
Samira sent forward an elixir that enabled Killpower to master
his technological affinity, and he designed a device that
rendered the mutated immaterial. This allowed the Time Guardian
sufficient time to regain his strength and overcome Fishburne.
After this, the Time Guardian returned Killpower and the Genetix
to their era, and Samira sent Julius a psychic message, telling
him she hoped they would meet again.

(Motormouth#1) - Mys-Tech sought the return of
the M.O.P.E.D., Mind Operated PErsonal Dematerialization,
technology, which Harley Davidson had somehow obtained. They sent
agent Killpower to get it, and he slew two SHIELD (Strategic
Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate) agents who
were dispatched to London to investigate the energies released by
the MOPED units. The deaths of two of his agents attracted the
attention of Nick Fury, who headed to London himself to
investigate.

(Motormouth#2) - Agents of SHIELD arrived in
London, and Fury sent a squad out to find out whom had killed
their other agents. Mullarkey dispatched Julius to engage them
and he mowed them down, until Oonagh told him "Play time's
over, it's team time." Julius grabbed one of the SHIELD
agents to take her back for tea time and took off with his jet
pack. As he approached the rendezvous helicopter, Oonagh told
Julius to drop her, which he did--to her death.

(Motormouth#3) - Killpower first bumped into Harley
Davidson, while walking through the halls of Mys-Tech Central. He
thought she looked too young and pretty to know such words as she
spoke to him. On his next mission, he again engaged SHIELD agents
(including Network Nina, Kate Neville, and Alexander Pierce),
this time joined by Frank Castle, the Punisher. Julius was VERY
disappointed when he was called back by Oonagh and had to abort
the mission. Mys-Tech Techno-Wizard Tyburn outfitted Julius with
the last MOPED unit and sent him retrieve Harley--against
Oonagh's wishes.

(Motormouth & Killpower#4) - Harley arrived
on Tekron just seconds before Killpower. She tried to escape him
initially, which was futile, but she then succeeded in reasoning
with him. The simple and mentally immature Killpower was
intrigued by Harley. She first explained to him that killing was
bad--a foreign concept to him--causing to burst into tears over
the hundreds of people he had already killed.

When they were attacked by a groups of native
pygmies and then native villagers, a bullet from their attackers
bounced off Killpower and struck Harley in the throat. Harley was
dying, but Killpower's bio-occult conditioning had made him a
prodigy with technology. Using the MOPED and Soni-Muta-500
technology, he rebuilt Harley's throat and recovered her from
near death.
After reviving, Harley found that the MOPED's abilities were now
part of her, and she used it to teleport herself and Killpower.

(Motormouth & Killpower#5) - Somehow, Harley and Killpower were
split up, but apparently still on Tekron. Eventually they
relocated each other and fought off a number of the robots that
attacked them. Harley grabbed a new set of duds from a museum,
and they teleported off again.

(Battletide I#1-4) - Harley and Julius took a
vacation on the South Pacific Island of Kamuni Atoll. However,
Death's Head was hired by Algernon Crowe (of Mys-Tech) to
recapture Killpower. Death's Head and Killpower were pulled into
a set of war games on the planetoid Colosseum, organized by
Termagent and Megaira. Outfitted with slave collars that forced
their compliance, Killpower and Death's Head were partnered (much
to Death's Head's displeasure) in a tournament of increasingly
more competitive life or death struggles. They were nearly
slaughtered in a struggle against Wolverine and Sabretooth. The
ferocity of the many fights eventually summoned the demonic
Battletide to the Colosseum, threatening to destroy them all.
Termagent and Megaira merged into the combined entity, Termagaira
which overpowered all of the heroes, and then merged with the
Battletide. Another of the combatants, a Temploid, combined with
Death's Head and succeeded in causing a storm that forced the
Battletide to collapse in on itself. Killpower was returned to
Kamuni Atoll, where he rebuilt Death's Head's shattered form.
Death's Head was grateful until he saw the big bag of his parts
that Killpower had left over...

(Battletide II#1-4) - Killpower sought to make
nice with Death's Head by helping out on a mission to loot data
from AIM, but inadvertently destroyed the data stores. Before
Death's Head could punish him, the two were teleported away by
the Temploids, who revealed that the Battletide had reformed and
was targeting Earth. In order to stop the Battletide, they first
had to overcome their agent, the Hulk. They also had to overcome
a techno-virus that had been set upon Death's Head by Bezial, one
of his former victims. In order to fend off the Battletide, they
sought the aid of one of the oldest Temploids, Gabriel. They
eventually confronted Bezial, only to find that Termagaira had
taken possession of him. Termagaira overpowered the two and them,
and then shattered Gabriel. Death's Head rallied to fight
Termagaira, while Killpower to rebuilt Gabriel. Death's Head
succeeding in reassimilating Bezial, taking Termagaira's host
form away. With Termagaira incapacitated, the Battletide turned
away from Earth. Killpower was mortally wounded by the struggle,
but the Temploids healed him. They were all returned to Earth.

(Motormouth & Killpower#6) - Harley and Killpower arrived on
Matricca Scorpio, the legendary factory planet. Mys-Tech tracked
the pair to that planet, and Tyburn had the Psycho-Warriors sent
after them. The Warriors defeated and captured Julius, but Harley
obtained his MOPED unit, leaving her with both, and Mys-Tech with
none. The Psycho-Warriors brought Julius back to Earth, to
Mys-Tech Central, to face punishment from a very annoyed Oonagh.

(Motormouth & Killpower#7) - Julius endured an interrogation
from Mullarkey until he found out that she had lied about Santa
Claus; then he broke free and warned her that she might not like
what happened if she pressed any alarms. Using Oonagh as a
hostage he tried to break out of Mys-Tech Central, but he ran
into Techno-Wizard Crowe, who swatted him into unconsciousness,
and he was recaptured.

(Motormouth & Killpower#8) - Harley returned to Earth and
teleported into Mys-Tech Central, where she found Julius
undergoing a session in the Truth Centre under Mullarkey's
guidance. Harley knocked out Oonagh and freed Julius, who
persuaded her not to kill Mullarkey. While fleeing, they bumped
into Rathcoole, another Techno-Wizard, who warped them into an
experimental research area, where they ran into a monstrous
creature.

(Motormouth & Killpower#9) - Harley and Julius escaped the
creature, and they located and destroyed the tracking bugs
Mys-Tech had implanted on them. They decided to try to raid
Mys-Tech's weapons depot before escaping. Their next jump brought
them to the Crossroads of Time where they met the current Time
Guardian before warping back to Rome @ 55 BC, where they appeared
in the midst of Emperor Julius Caesar's games. After defeating
all other combatants, Harley warped them away once again.

(Motormouth & Killpower#10) - They arrived in the world
Hyrkania, where they ran into Sabra of the Seven Isles. Mistaking
them as agents of her enemy, the wizard Qaar Ghoth, Sabra
activated Harley's MOPED unit and teleported her away. While she
was away, Killpower made nice with Sabra by helping her to defeat
a pack of Ghoth's Were-Men. Upon Harley's return the three of
them fought off some more Were-Men and then raised an army to
take down Qaar Ghoth. The army wore down Ghoth's defenses and
drained his remaining magical stores, but he made a trap for
Harley and she slipped into "the Sleep of the Dead"
after pricking her finger on a poisoned brooch. Following the
prophecies of the land (and the plot to Sleeping Beauty)
as dispensed by Sabra's ally Margreth, Julius kissed Harley and
awakened her from her coma. The two teleported away for another
adventure.

(Motormouth & Killpower#11) - Arriving in a potential future of
2195 AD, Harley and Julius joined forces with Zachary Sorrow and
CARE (the Citizen's Assistance Resource Executive) against the
Electro-Vampires. Harley herself slew Rakulon, the leader of the
vampires. They picked up a few more weapons from that future
world before hopping away again.

(Motormouth & Killpower#12) - Harley and Julius returned to
Earth and joined forces with Death's Head against the Metamorph,
a renegade creation of AIM.

(Motormouth & Killpower#12/2) - On the planet Fautor IV, Julius
enraged 40, 000 dedicated worshippers by telling them that
"Kipple" was a stupid name for a god. The High Priest
summoned Kipple himself to punish the blasphemers. Harley was
quick to point out Julius as the guilty party and watched as he
defeated and slew Kipple, becoming the new object of worship of
the people of Fautor IV.

(Mys-Tech Wars#2-4) - Mys-Tech activated the
Un-Earth, beginning their warp of reality. A large number of
American and British heroes gathered in an effort to stop them.
Meanwhile, one of the demon creatures released from the Un-Earth
assaulted Harley and Julius at Kamuni Atoll. Julius destroyed the
demon, and Harley transported them both to Mys-Tech to tell them
not to mess with them. However, when they arrived, they were
mistaken for Mys-Tech agents by Captain America and Wolverine,
who had just found the corpse of Nick Fury--slain by Mys-Tech.
The two heroes attacked them: Harley actually got the drop on
Cap, long enough to enough to explain the situation. However,
Julius was not so lucky against Wolvie, who sliced and diced him
and then knocked him off a ledge.
Right about that time, Death's Head slew the Mys-Tech
Techno-Wizards, tearing open the fabric of reality to which they
were interwoven. Dark Angel proved able to hold together reality
temporarily. Harley joined the others in fighting a horde of
Mys-Tech's Psycho-Warriors and making their way to the Un-Earth,
with the aid of Julius, who wasn't so dead after all. At the
Un-Earth, six of the heroes served as surrogate members for the
Techno-Wizards to repair the rift. Dark Angel held them together,
Professor X provided psychic power, Albion provided Earth magic,
Dr. Strange provided sorcery, Death's Head provided cybernetic
influence, and Motormouth...well, they needed six of them. The
six surrogates successfully repaired the rift and reformed the
Techno-Wizards, set back time so that the many deaths and the
activation of Un-Earth never occurred, and put a force field up
around the Un-Earth to prevent Mys-Tech from accessing it again.
Due to the reversal of time, only Harley and the other five who
served as surrogates remembered that the struggle had ever
happened.

(Dark Guard#1-4) - Harley and Julius were part
of a group of heroes drafted into the service of the Time
Guardian (who had noticed their involvement in the Mys-Tech
Wars). He sent them to Eopia, where they helped defeat the forces
of Mys-Tech, which had infiltrated the two opposing nations, the
Egaliterns and the Technarchy. Julius was captured by the
Technarchy, and Harley joined Death's Head in rescuing him. This
brought them into conflict with the extremely powerful Mys-Tech
agent Collapsar. Although they seemed unable to harm Collapsar,
Harley's enhanced vision enabled her to identify microfractures
across his torso, which Death's Head then shattered completely,
destroying Collapsar.
Dark Guard eventually uncovered the mastermind behind the plot,
Tyburn, and restored peace negotiations on Eopia.

(Incredible Hulk II#408-409) - Harley and Julius
returned to London to take a vacation. Their plans took a slight
turn when the Hulk fell out of the sky (after a fight with Madman
aboard his ship) and landed on their lunch table. The Hulk
quickly took out Killpower when he attacked him, but after he'd
revived and the Hulk explained what had happened, Julius was more
than happy to join the fight against Madman--despite the Hulk's
instructions to stay out of it. Harley and Julius climbed up Big
Ben and caught Prince Charles when Madman tossed him off the top
of the giant clock. Madman attacked them, but Harley blasted him
in mid-air and knocked him across the city. The Hulk and Madman's
fight culminated with London Bridge falling down, and Harley and
Julius helped the Hulk search the wreckage, but there was no sign
of Madman.

(Captain Britain and MI13#11 (fb) - BTS) - Motormouth and Killpower came to the aid of Faiza Hussain's parents when her mother hit the security button. Motormouth was seriously injured by Dracula and three other vampiers while Killpower was abducted by them.

(Captain Britain and MI13#14) - Killpower pretended to be under Dracula's control and was among the vampire army on Dracula's flagship the Serpent's Crown. Spitfire told Dracula who Killpower was.

Killpower broke Dracula's control over Faiza's father Yusuf and told him to flee while Killpower fought some of the vampires, but Yusuf instead went after Dracula. When Captain Britain ordered to fall back Killpower teleported back to Earth where a desperate Faiza asked where her father was....Killpower couldn't tell her.

Comments: Created by Graham Marks and
Gary Frank.

Hyrkania is the name of the land from which Red
Sonja originated or dwelled. I think the version visited by
Harley was another dimension altogether, a world of swords and
sorcery, named as an homage to Robert E. Howard's Sonja/Sonya.

The story of Killpower: The Early Years
references the date of the main story as 1988. While this, and
other relatively recent dates in the story are topical, it can be
construed as taking place five years before the stories in
Motormouth and Killpower, which were published in 1993.

Yet another example of an incorrect use of the
prefix "Were." I think b/c of the word werewolf, it is
assumed that were means transformation or even refers to wolves,
when really it means man or men. So, while Werewolf means
wolf-man, Were-Men, means man-men, which I doubt is what they
were going for.

Killpower remains in limbo, with the rest of
the Marvel UK characters. I'd much
rather see these guys again than the Mangaverse or a bunch of
other senseless retcons.

When they appear in Avengers Forever, I'm not sure that's 616 Harley and Julius. I think it's implied they're alternate future or past versions, like Songbird and Genis. Because they certainly haven't joined the Avengers, and let's face it, they probably won't ever will.
(Avengers Forever#11 - BTS, 12) - Motormouth and
Killpower were part of the multitude of Avengers (past, present,
future, and alternate reality) summoned to the Citadel at the End
of Time, either by the Time Keepers, or by Rick Jones in the
final battle of the Destiny War.--Matt K